Registered: 11/05/14
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Loc: Hunt in Cass County, live in T...

My wife is getting older and it now hurts her shoulder when she shoots her 30/06. It's her favorite rifle, had it for 38 years and she won't even try my 270 or any other gun. Would having a break put on her gun reduce the recoil to the point that she would notice it, or is it just a little bit? No sense in spending the money if noticeable reduction in recoil is on slight. And I have just learned of "lite loads," by Remington. has anyone used them?

With the Lite Loads and a good muzzle Break it would be amazingly less recoil. The Low recoil loads work very well from what friends tell me.

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"Anyone taking up handloading necessarily plays with unknown factors and takes chances. But so does anyone who drives a car,goes to a cocktail party,eats in a restaurant,or gets married."

Reduced recoil loads help a lot. The break also helps significantly. Downfall is it gets super loud. Not that most guns are quiet but the sounds can be pretty bad. I had a break on a 300 win mag and it was about like shooting a 243.

I've shared my home with four women--3 daughters and a wife--for nigh on to 40 years. They are not happy unless they can complain.

If you put a brake on the rifle, she will shift her wrath from the kick to the noise. So you put a decelerator pad on the stock; now she will complain about the stock being too long or the pad hanging up on her jacket when she shoulders the rifle.

So this is what you do: Give her $250 bucks and encourage her to go shopping at her favorite store and buy whatever she likes. While she's buying a new purse or shoes, you go to Academy and buy a box of reduced-recoil loads. If you handload, buy a box of 130 gr Hornadys and go to the handbook and load up some low-velocity starting loads. Let her wear your PAST recoil pad while in the blind. While you're out at the deer lease, take her to dinner at the Ft Griffin Ice House.

And you haven't ruined the rifle with a brake or a big recoil pad. Problem solved.

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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple.....and wrong." H. L. Mencken

just as everyone has said, MB do work! A good one will reduce the recoil a ton and make it fun to shoot again! But you will need to wear hearing protection while hunting but then the older I get the more I think I need to do this anyway. As for reduced rounds I can't answer that because I don't know much about them. I do know that the MB has allowed me to shoot a long range rifle and the recoil is like a .22. And I can shoot it all day long!

ive been shooting a 300 weatherby mag,and a 300 win mag for twenty years now and until yesterday i didnt know what ive been missing.had chad from titon weapons thread my barrel and put on muzzle break in preperation for my specwar 7.62 can ,yes it was louder but i just doubled up my hearing protection and it was fine about the same as if i only had ear plugs in i say go for it.